Transport stand



1,619,907 March v E. A. WH!TE TRANSPORT STAND Filed April 5. 1926 Q I INVENTOR BY N I '4 if ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 8, 1927.

EDWARD A. WHITE, or'tnw'isron, ID'AHG.

TRANSPORT STAND.

Application fileu April 5, Serial No; 99,85'1.

hold the boxed goods during thesorting or packing process, but also serving as means of transit of theboxed goods to and from the table or other device atfiwhich the sort ing andv pecking operations" are carried 011.

Thus it 'is: a feature of my'inivention to provide a rolling" boxstand that may be readily advanced to andfIfroin the sources of supply and conveyance of the boxed .goo'ds.

Itis a feature of the "invention to provide the stand With at novel box heldiinguneens designed to. hold thewbox in sucha position as to feci liiteteeccesstheretosby e sorter or packer, seiid'holding meen's being also designed to perform theadditionat "function of facilitating the loading onto or unloading oili from said stand of boxes containing goods, such as apples, therebyevoidinglift ing by henchotthese relatively heavy conminers.

Other features and objects of the inven tion will? be more rn lly described infconneotion With theeccompanying drawing and \vill be more particularly pointed out in end by the appended claim. I

In the drawing? V Fig. 1, is e. view in elevation ott splent arrangement and structure incorporating the invention in themost improved form.

Fi is at view in side elevation of my im proved stand showii'rg' sne-pplebox thereon.

Fig. 8, is a View looking-irons the right of F ig. 2.

Fig. 4t, ise vie-W- looking "from Fig.2.

Like characters of reference designate similsr parts throughoutthe d'ilierent figures of the dreiving. I

I Willfir'st describe a plant construction, which Iclsimas noyehend which elsoillustretes a highly e.dvantzugeous use of the device of my invention, e special feature beingthet one type of my stand is interchangeztbly zrvnileble ior d ifierent operatives.

The floor line is designated at 1, and I have shown a motion storage table 2 which is rotated by a shaft 3, mounted in bearings the lett of 4;- end 5, and which is specifically described and claimed in my pending application filed March 30, 1926,,S'eriel No. 98,629,: At the left of the table 2, is What I Will broadly term "it sorters conveyor 6, which may be oterry approved type and on which boxes I, lillzedwith unsorted apples are conveyed to the sorters, Whose 'position'wegwil-lsey' is at the left of table 2. At the right of said table I have, shown what I will ternre psckersconveyor: 8,103? any approvedform; which :is adapted towconvey mveythe boxes 9; which have been peeked with apples. I have shown theconveyort, of slightly greater height than theconveyorS, iors purpose Whichwill presently eppeer. Now generzrl-ly speaking, the boxes of unsorted apples 7, are conveyed to the'sorters'i sndmust'betransferred oft 'the conveyor- 6, andsupported' in e position-to render the contents accessible: to the sorter adjacent the table; 2 SOi that. the apples camber sorted out esvto grades, or sizes; or in some instenees: both, the different lillliiQbSQlli apples beingdeposited on' the table 2; T he pecker, at the other sid'eJo-t'the table 2, must. have en empty Ibo-X held in an no cessible position so that the peckercan take apples at certain grade oi? from te'ble'zQ, enid'pecktheminithe box After a. box: has bejeirpe'clredfullor'c' apples, it most be trenslierred toconveyor8,rwhere itis carried to 21 suitable point of deposition. O11": course, both Sorters and peclrers stand upright when Working, and heretofore itlhels been necessary for sorters tOilift. a bee ot'unsorted apples from the floor onto 21: suitable bench from which they can Work. It has else.- been necesssry forthe pecker to lift a 't'ully' peeked b0 off from the bench and depositit on the floor in order to melee room i or' en empty'box. -Where.'feniele help is employed as sorters and psckersrthis: required the services of one or, two: menfto do the lifting of boxes, and frequently the sorters or pecker-s hadto Wait for one ofthe men to perfornrthis-i unction. Now it isrtheobject ofithis invent-ion to avoid such delay, and to also. provide 21 novel arrangement whereby the sorte s. and packers, even when girls: are so: employed. can readily shift the filled boxes and trans: port them as required, with: a. minmunrot etliortv and a maximum of speed,..the-reby avoiding entirely, the necessity of men for lifting the filled boxes.

Therefore, I will next proceed to describe my improved transportable box support and stand which is more particularly shown in Figs. 2 to 4;.

As shown, my improved stand includes a top 10, supported on suitable legs 11 that may be connected at 12, to render the struc ture rigid. Because my stand is partly designed to transport goods, it is a feature to provide a rolling stand, or a stand having anti-friction means whereby it may be readily shifted from place to place on the plant floor. I therefore prefer to mount the legs 11 on roller casters 13, of an approved type.

On the top 10, I provide box supporting means which involves a fixed and a rolling element, and it is a feature of my invention to so construct and combine these elements so that the box will automatically seek a secure position by gravity, which position is preferably and advantageously an inclined position so as to render the contents more easily accessible. It is a further feature to employ a rolling box supporting element of such a character that a full box may readily be shifted on such element onto or off from thestand.

The said fixed supporting element is shown in the form of a rest head 14, having angularly disposed portions or sections 15 and 16, against which an end face 17 and a bottom face 18, of the box may repose. The short portion or section 15, functions more as an abutting section while the elongated section 16 functions more as slide and a supporting section. The head 14, is provided with a suitable base 19, which is anchored to the stand top 10. From Fig. i, it will be seen that the head 14 engages a suificient linear area of the box to provide a secure support without engaging the side portions thereof.

The remaining or rolling member of the support consists ofa roller 20, rotatively mounted in a suitable bracket 21, which is suitably anchored to top 10. This roller 20, is disposed in suficient spaced relation to support 14:, and at such an elevation with respect thereto, as to throw the center of gravity preponderently toward the left of Fig. 2, so that the box will seek the position shown therein by gravity. I do not necessarily mean by this that the box will, itself, always slide into the position shown, but I do mean that the weight of the box, in this disposition, will greatly lighten the burden of the operator in putting or shifting the box onto the stand. It will also be clear that with the box in this position, either the sorter or packer can operate with a minimum of reaching.

Assuming that a sorter wanted a new box, he will shift the stand to the dotted line position adjacent conveyor 6, and with the roller 20, nearest the conveyor.- This conveyor is of such a height that it is on a substantial level with the top of roller 20. Thus, the box 7, can be shifted to the right of conveyor 6, onto roller 20, without lifting the box, and then after the box is on roller 20, a slight extra impulse will deposit the box in the correct position shown in 2. The stand is then shifted to the sorters position adjacent the table as shown in full lines, and the sorter works at sorting out the apples until the box is emptied. He then merely lifts the empty box off from the stand and repeats the operation just described, of getting a new box from conveyor (3. Thus, he never has to lift a full box, only an empty box.

Vdhen a packer starts to'paclr, he will lift an empty box on the stand, as shown in full lines at the right of table 2. After he has packed this box full, he will shift his stand to the dotted line position adjacent conveyor 8. By pushing the box 9 to the right, over roller 20, which reatly facilitates this operation, and because the top of conveyor 8, is lower than, or even if on the same level as, the top of roller 20, the effort is of a minimum nature; IVhile I have shown the conveyor 8, slightly lower than conveyor 6, this difference of height is not necessary, as in either loading a box onto the stand or unloading a box from the stand, the roller side of the stand will be disposed next adjacent the conveyor.

The vastly important feature is that I only have to provide one type and one size ofstand, and that this stand is equally availabl and interchangeably used by sorters and packers for loading and unloading. And further, this stand never requires a sorter or packer to lift a filled box.

It is believed that the device of my invention will be fully understood from the fore going description, and while I have herein shown and described one specific form of my invention, .1 dov not wish to be limited thereto except for such limitations as the claim may import.

I claim:

In a transportable box support, a rolling box stand, said stand having loading and unloading box supporting means comprising a roller, and a rest head having an abutment section, said head having an elongated supporting section inclined toward said roller and on which the box may slide down into position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I hereby affix my signature.

EDWARD'A. WHITE. 

